Rail Detonator Gun

About the Rail Detonator Gun

A hybrid of gun and grenade launcher, the rail detonator fires a spiked projectile that embeds in a target before a delayed charge inside it detonates, so the round kills twice, first with penetration and then with the blast. Fringe gunsmiths and bounty hunters built weapons in this vein for hard targets, the piercing slug defeating armor before the explosive finishes the work. It is a two-handed piece with a deliberate, single-shot rhythm, rewarding the patient shooter who plants a round precisely and lets the mechanism do the rest. The threat of a detonator buried in one's chest plate carries its own grim persuasion, which is exactly the reputation such weapons cultivate. It is a specialist's tool for a specialist's problem, favored by those who hunt the sort of quarry an ordinary blaster only annoys.